Headwaters Economics Inc

There Is a Lack of Publicly Available Data That Describes Climate Adaptive Capacity in Rural Communities in the United States Few Studies Have Been Conducted and None With a National Scope. This Scientific Gap Creates Additional Challenges for Rural Communities Attempting to Demonstrate Their Fiscal Need for Resources to Funding Agencies. Concurrently, Agencies Lack Data to Make More Equitable Fiscal Decisions. the Goal of This Study Is to Develop a Validated Rural Climate-adaptive-capacity Index for the Entire United States and Display the Results in an Online Mapping Tool While Also Contributing Insights to the Academic Literature. This Research Project Will Use a Mixed-methods Approach to Calibrate and Validate an Index of Climate Adaptive Capacity for Rural Communities, Noting That Social Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity Are Not Synonymous. Methods Will Be Applied to Improve and Expand a Previous Study That Identified Factors Thought to Represent and Impact Loca